Ivan Klein

Ivan G. Klein (8 June 1959-) was the Mayor of Tomsk in Tomsk Oblast, Russia from October 2013.

Biography
Ivan Klein was born on 8 June 1959 in Romadan Beskaragai, Semipalatinsk, Kazakh ASSR, Soviet Union to a family of German Russians. In 1979 he served in the Soviet Army before entering the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in automation and computer science, graduating with honors. He worked as a foreman in an instrument-making plant before becoming the chief mechanic at a Tomsk brewery, and from 1997 to 2013 he served as a deputy of the Legislative Duma of Tomsk as the chairman of the Committee of Economic Policy. In October 2013, he was elected Mayor of Tomsk.